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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Provides experience in insect, disease, and weed identification and control with emphasis on safety and legal requirements for state licensure. Topics include: identification of insects, diseases, and weeds, safety regulations, equipment use and care, and regulations for licensure.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces cultural techniques required for proper landscape maintenance with emphasis on practical application and managerial techniques. Topics include: landscape management and administrative functions for landscape management.
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3.00 Credits
Presents cultural and managerial techniques required for success in the garden center industry. Topics include: garden center establishment, garden center management, and post-production handling and marketing.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: Completion of all essential fundamental courses) Provides the student with practical experience in an actual job setting. This internship allows the student to become involved in on-the-job environmental horticulture applications that require practice and follow through. Topics include: work ethics, skills, and attitudes, demands of the horticulture industry, horticultural business management, and labor supervision.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the student to the basic principles of plant propagation. Focus of the course will be hands-on experience. Topics include: seed germination, rooting cuttings, propagation facilities construction, layering, insect disease and control, and cultural controls for propagation.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with exposure to the basic principles of hydraulics and fluidics. Special attention is given to watering plant materials in various soil and climatic conditions through the use of irrigation. Topics include: industry overview, fluidics and hydraulics, system design and installation.
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3.00 Credits
A study of turfgrass used in the southern United States. Topics include: industry overview, soil and soil modification, soil fertility, turf installation, turf maintenance, turf diseases, insects and weeds: and estimating costs on management practices
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3.00 Credits
Enhances a student's ability to identify and control ornamental plant pests. Emphasis will be on practical applications of pest control measures from prevention to pesticide treatment. Topics include: identification of insects, diseases, and weeds on woody ornamental and herbaceous plants, proper IPM planning and execution, and pesticide selection and application.
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: Provisional admission) Introduces the basics of soil physics and chemistry and their relationship to plant growth. Topics include: soil structure, soil chemistry, nutrition, fertilization, and soil preparation
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3.00 Credits
Covers basic design principles as well as actual construction activities that occur on a typical golf course. Renovation of various areas of a course will also be included in this class. Topics include: history of golf and golf course design, routing the course, individual hole design, greens installation, surveying, and drainage problem solving. Renovations of various areas of a course are also included.
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